Palm Springs say NO!

[InfoCentral]

I tried to make reservations at an RV site in Palm Springs.  To my amazement he said he was unable too because Palm Springs and also the surrounding citys have ordanances banning pop-up trailers/campers within their city limits even in RV parks!  Has anyone ever heard of this before?

[TheViking]

I kinda have. When we lived in Arizona we would go to the Nascar race with the DW's parents, and they would stay in what the track owners called "Motorhome City". When we bought our pop-up I was really excited because I thought we would have our own spot in Motorhome City. Wrong. They would not allow pop-up's there. You can have TT's or Motorhomes, if you had a pop-up you had to camp in the first-come first-serve area with all the people that were tent camping.

[InfoCentral]

Well, I can see an event or RV park restricting what they want to allow but a city taking a position against what a RV park can allow is beyond me.  I never heard of this before.  I think the city's powers have gotten out of control!

[kimrb266]

My step family owns Sam's Family Spa in Palm Desert and when we were planning a rally there this past Spring, they were going to allow pop-ups.  They never told me that they weren't permited.  We didn't have that rally because it was going to be too windy at that time of year.

[mike4947]

I made a call to a snowbird in the extended camping family that spends most of each winter in a Palm Springs RV park. She says that while there are quite a few local RV parks that do limit their parks to self contained, she's sure there isn't a "LAW" restricting PU's or TT's.
There are also several parks in the general area that restrict campers to over 55, and at least one with no animals, and several with "no children under 18".
Since Palm Springs is one of the ritziest communities in the country I would expect to see "the locals" put on restrictions and "fib" a little about it being a "law".
She also mentioned that there are RV park's there that has rates of over a $100 a night in season.

[hoppy]

Well,

 If the "snobs" in Palm Springs do not want my PU tourist money, I'll just have to spend it else where then!  

 It's their loss.... not mine!

 Never really cared for stuck-up people anyway.  

[InfoCentral]

I have a list of RV places in the Palm Springs area and I will give them a call and see what each one has to say about this issue.  The one I called was the closest to downdown Palm Springs.  There are several others but they are actually not in Palm Springs but surrounding cities.  I was told by this RV park the surrounding cities have outlawed PU too.  Well see...

[zimou812]

Well, I guess that comfirms it.....we are all just Pop Up Trailer Trash!!!!

[beacher]

Palm Springs dosn't need anyone's money.  That's where the rich go to get away from "it" all.  They don't want "it" following them.

In the early 80's my friends and I would organize huge Spring Break festivities in Palm Springs.  The local gas stations, hotels, motels, bars, restaurants, convenience stores, and shops LOVED having many-multiple-hundreds of thousands of college kids for the week before and after Easter.

However, the locals didn't like the traffic, the noise, or the young crowd.  So, essentially, it was outlawed.  Were talking about many millions of dollars being spent over a ten day period.  Not welcome!

[Dee4j]

I've visited there several times times and never found anything that made my boat float..just an over-priced town with un-friendly people who think they're better than everyone else They don't seem to realize their @#*% sticks just like everyone elses :eek: ...well except for mine which smells like roses :J

ouch..my nose just hit my monitor :J